Review: The End of Food by Paul Roberts and Eat Your Heart Out by Felicity Lawrence

IN APRIL, Haiti’s prime minister became one of the first political casualties of the global food crisis, when he was forced to stand down in the aftermath of violent food riots. Around the world, people are beginning to fear that such events are a harbinger of things to come. Skyrocketing prices for many of the world’s food staples have triggered social unrest in more than 32 countries, and a global summit of world leaders met last month in Rome, Italy, to hash out an emergency response.